ISTR there's a Perl hub around somewhere if that helps... and there's
quite a bit of work E's done with Perl for the xAP SlimServer plugin
that might be useful ?

K


James wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> There are two things bugging me about my mac. Firstly I have no idea
> how to program on it and secondly not much xAP. So i've been getting
> my head around Python and made a little app, well script, that listens
> for xAP display messages and then pops them up. I'm using Growl to do
> the popups so you'll ned that installed as well as the python bindings
> that go with it.
> The script is here:
> http://mi4.biz/files/python/xAPDisplay01.txt
> <http://mi4.biz/files/python/xAPDisplay01.txt>
> It's not a true xAP application, it only listens on the hub port and
> wont work with a hub yet, but then I couldn't get the hub to compile
> so probably not an issue for now! It's more of a test than an app
> for now, but as it's already useful I thought I would share.
>
> If anyone has any python experience and could help with why the py2app
> fails with the script to build a normal application then it would
> really help and I'm sure I'm just missing something simple with paths
> to the growl libraries but it causes the .app to fail to run.
>
> Thanks
>
> James
>
>